Robert Curl

Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist. He was a professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene.

Curl died in Houston, Texas on July 3, 2022, at the age of 88.

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